Agenda - Planning Commission - 04/07/2011

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t Metropolitan Council • Counties: Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Scott and Washington Counties: Hennepin and Ramsey The background section sets the stage The land use plan allocates resources Local Planning Handbook 1 Section 1. Metropolitan Planning Overview The counties of Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Scott and Washington are required to prepare and submit local comprehensive plans that include plans for land use, transportation, and solid waste management and an implementation program. Counties must also prepare comprehensive plans for townships that do not or cannot prepare plans for themselves. Hennepin and Ramsey Counties must prepare implementation programs for their transportation and solid waste management plans. If a city or township within the jurisdiction of one of these counties requests it, the county is responsible for managing the maintenance program for that community's septic maintenance system. The Metropolitan Land Planning Act requires each comprehensive plan to address the four areas described below. Additional statutes and policies stipulate exactly what needs to be included in the discussions within each area. The background section of the plan delineates the community's vision and expectations. It includes the objectives, policies and forecasts that serve as the basis of the community's plans. Detailed requirements are identified in Section 2 of this Handbook. In the land use section the local comprehensive plan explains how the community has allocated and will allocate land use, how it will accommodate population growth, and how it protects special resources. Detailed information and requirements are identified in Section 3 of this Handbook. Minn. Stat. 473.859, Subd. 1 through 6 http://www.metrocouncil.orq/plan ning /LPH /LPHSect2.pdf http://www.metrocounci1.orq/plan ning /LPH /LPHSect3.pdf June 2008 1 -6